Main ideas

Stakeholder concept -- everyone who is active in the virtual world community is a stakeholder with an interest in how it develops.

Stakeholders need representation in how the virtual world develops.

Many of us want to attract more people: Especially content creators, performers, event producers, and grid operators.

A browser-based viewer could offer a great improvement in attracting and onboarding new people so the announcement from Halcyon that it is developing such a viewer is stirring this pot.

A browser based viewer, coupled with community based marketing, could be the tipping point that opens virtual worlds to a mass market.

We think it is time to organize a group to speak for the interests of all the stakeholders.

Such an an organization would Identify needs as seen by stakeholders in the virtual worlds community and would seek ways to meet those needs.

For some needs, this work might take the form of coordinated advertising and marketing.

For other needs, especially for the virtual worlds infrastructure, the organization might seek funding from nonprofit sources for particular projects.

At least one nonprofit is interested in supporting the more rapid and organized development of open-source virtual worlds, but it cannot do so without an organized plan supported by the community of users.

The proposed solution: Our informal group is seeking to organize a group of community members willing and able to represent all interested stakeholders in the community and also able to make sound technical judgments about what can be accomplished within a reasonable time and budget.

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